Philip klqtz



P. KLOTZ.

Base Burning Fire Place Heater.

Patented Aug. 31

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Witnesses:

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PHILIP KLOTZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BENT- LEY C. BIBB, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 94,320, dated August 31, 1869.

BASE-BURNING FIRE-PLACE HEATER.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, PHILIP Knorz, of the city and county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland,

have invented certain novel Improvements in Fire-.

Place Heaters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the following specification, in which- Figure lis a vertical section, taken through the heater in front of the fire-board, exposing to view the interior of the heater.

Figure 2 is a vertical section, taken centrally through the heater from front to rear.

Figure .3 is a side view of the double-legged feeder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates particularly to certain improvements on fuel-magazine fire-place heaters, but is applicable, in part, to other varieties of heaters or stoves. I

The nature of my invention consists First, in a magazine or feeder, having two fuel-supply branches or legs, inclining, from. a chamber at the top of the heater, backward, so as to deliver the fuel at points in.rear of the centre of the fire-pot, thereby exposing a much larger area of fire-surface, in a given space, than is done in heaters or stoves having the fuelmagazine arranged centrally over the fire-pots, and, at the same time, insuring a free supply of fuel, as will be hereinafter explained.

Second, in providing, between the fire-chamber and the uppermost section of the heater, a horizontal or laterally-enlarged chamber for the escape and circulation of the products of combustion intoidescendingflue columns, when the direct-draught damper is shut;

said intermediate chambered section also serving as a shelf upon which to arrange evapm'ators, as will be hereinafter explained.

I am aware that in the schedule annexed to the Letters Patent granted to S. \V. Gibbs, on the 7th day of July, 1868, a stove is described with a single inclined feeder, which is designed to deliver the fuel into the fire-pot, in rear of the centre thereof, and therefore I'do not claim as my invention the broad idea of employing a single inclined feeder, such as is shown in Gibbss patent.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, 1 will describe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawings- A represents the base-section of a fire-place heater, which is divided by a partition, b, so as to form a central ash-chamber, a, which is enclosed on three sides by a flue-space thatleads from the vertical-flue columns E E to a vertical-escape flue, E','at the back of the heater.

Directly above the ash-chambe a is the fire-chamher B, which is lined at d with fire-bricks, and provided, if desirable, with mica windows, for exposing to view the light of the fire in the chamber B.

The grate c is arranged at the base of the firechamber, and may be constructed in any well-known manner.

The fire-chamber B and the vertical-flue columns E E terminate at their upper ends in a chamber which is formed by the horizontal section 0, which extends laterally from the chamber B all around the same, and affords a large area of heat-radiating surface, as well as a support for the evaporating-vessels j j, on opposite sides of an upper section, D, which latter is superimposed upon, and is in communication with the section G, as shown in figs. l and 2.

The top section, D, of the heater, is arranged centrally over the fire-chamber section B, and through the top plate of this section D an opening is made, leading into a chamber, F from which the feed-reservoirs F 1 are carried downward and backward, as shown in the drawings.

'The feed-passage is provided with-a cover, F, and is preferably made nearer the front of the section D than the back, as shown in fig. 2.

The chamber F may be perforated at g g, for allowing the escape from it, into the chamber D, of any gas which might rise from the coal in the reservoirs or legs F.

The reservoirs not only incline backward, but they are also inclined laterally from a ridge or central dividing angle f and these reservoirs or legs are sustained upon ledges p, fastened to the section B, above a the fire-brick lining d.

An opening is made through the back part of the section D, which communicates, by means of a short horizontal pipe, with the vertical-exit flue E, and by means of the damper h, which can be worked by a crank-rod, I, from the front of the heater, 3. direct draught from the fire-chamber B into exit-flue E" can be obtained, or, when desired, said opening can be shut, and all the products of combustion caused to circulate through the intermediate chamber 0, down the flue-columns E, thence through the flue-chambers in base-section, and, finally, through the exit-flue E. The vertical air-flue P and the vertical tubes k k supply air from the base of the stove, to be heated and conducted whithersoever it may be required. In fire-place heaters, whether they have'the improved double feeders F F? or the well-known single feeders,

.I consider the intermediate laterally-extended finesect-ion G a great improvement, as it allows the highlyheated products topass freely outof the fire-chamber, and thence into the bottom section of the heater, and it affords a very large amount of heat-radiating surface.

Said section 0 also enables me to form a direct com- 1. A double-legged fuel-feed, substantially as described. y

2. The chamber F, at the upper termini of the two feed-legs F F, substantially asdescribed.

3. The fuel-feeders F inclined backward and laterally, and supported wholly or in part at points above the fire-brick lining, substantially as described.

4. The horizontal flue-section (l, in afire-place heater,

which is organized substantially as described.

Witnesses: PHILIP KLOTZ.

G1 E. SANGSTON, P. H. O. STITCHER. 

